Google's Glass: Future of Augmented Reality?

This kind of technology is years away, but when it gets here, it changes everything. The primary limiting factor of smartphones today is display size and input efficiency. With speech recognition providing better input on the go, contact lens (or glasses) based displays which overlay a giant virtual screen over reality solves display size and makes a smartphone a much more powerful device.

The obvious scenarios like turn-by-turn navigation and facial recognition with contact info (never forget someone’s name again!) are great, but in much the same way the ability to create apps that took advantage of new sensors in phones (GPS, accelerometers, touch, etc.) lead to apps that nobody could have foreseen, this technology will be fertile ground for new ideas. Exciting stuff… I can’t wait.